Personal Injury Law

New York City Fatal Construction Accident

Anthony Paino, a 28-year-old Staten Island man, was killed in a Manhattan construction accident after he fell from the 10th floor of a hotel under construction on Park Avenue South. According to this news report in the New York Times, Paino fell from a plywood mold used for poured concrete columns and landed on top of the sidewalk shed of an adjacent building. Authorities say Paino was not wearing a required harness that is used to tether workers to the buildings and prevent such falls.

Paino apparently worked for L.M.C. Specialties, a steel subcontractor that was placing reinforcement bars to be covered by concrete. He was supposed to have been working on a column at the edge of the building inside protective guardrails. But officials say they don't know what happened and how Paino fell to his death. This is the second fatal New York City construction site accident this year.

Every year many workers are killed or catastrophically injured while working on scaffolding. This occurs although there are many state and federal regulations, as well as industry standards that require owners, contractors and subcontractors to implement a variety of safety measures. Injured workers or their families would be entitled to New York workers compensation benefits, but these benefits are inadequate and often don't compensate injured workers for all damages caused by their NY work-related accident.

If you or a loved one has been injured in a New York construction accident, please call an experienced New York construction accident injury attorney at Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro LLP. for a free consultation and case evaluation. Our New York scaffolding injury lawyers have extensive experience in all types of construction site accidents.

Full post as published by New York Injury Talk Blog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).